
Meet PUFFER, a new robot designed by NASA to explore terrains a Mars rover can’t get to. Its name, PUFFER, stands for pop-up flat folding explorer robot. It’s built to manage all kinds of situations, and has been tested in environments as extreme as California’s Mojave desert to an active volcano in Antarctica.







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